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2011's naughty and nice celebrities

From an alleged Bieber baby to tiger-blood tonics, 2011 will be remembered as the year the stars banded together to make Mel Gibson look boring. Fortunately, not every celeb deserves a lump of coal. Today, we find out who was naughty, who was nice, and who was too busy posing for nude photos to care about which list they landed on.

Naughty

• Charlie Sheen: The actor's "winning" ways began with a stint in rehab, followed by a public admission that the drug to which he was addicted was, in fact, himself. Thanks to a series of bizarre interviews - in which he slammed his TV boss, claimed to have tiger blood, and declared himself "a total bitchin' rock star from Mars" - Sheen became a kind of folk hero, attracting millions of Twitter followers and embarking on a cross-country tour. It wasn't long, however, before his antics grew as tiresome as his platitudes. And by March, people the world over were praying Sheen would find Jesus, if only so he could give up talking for Lent.

• Kim Kardashian: The reality star's mega-wedding, rumoured to have made her $17.9 million, was marketed as a fairy tale - and we suppose it was, to the extent that the marriage was mostly fiction. Just 72 days after saying, "I do," Kardashian announced plans for a divorce. To be fair, however, selling tall tales to the cameras is a Kardashian family tradition dating back to the O.J. Simpson trial.

• Mariah Yeater: When the young woman accused singer Justin Bieber of fathering her child, the only believable part of her story was that the sexual encounter was "brief." The Canadian pop idol publicly denied the salacious allegations, taking a DNA test and affirming to Beliebers that he was "never going to be a victim." We're still waiting for fashion to issue a rebuttal.

• Ashton Kutcher: Taking over for Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men, the actor was on top of the world. It was a long way to fall. His performance on the show received mixed reviews (at best); an alleged affair by Kutcher saw Demi Moore, his wife of six years, announce plans for divorce; and after using his Twitter account to defend a football coach embroiled in a child-abuse scandal, Kutcher ceded tweet-control to his staff. But don't cry for Ashton. At the premiere for his new movie, New Year's Eve, the actor found peaceful solace in co-star Lea Michele's breasts.

• Lindsay Lohan: The disgraced actress's legal woes continued in 2011, with the vast majority of her photo opps being staged outside courtrooms and during community service (kudos to the person who put her to work at a morgue, presumably to be reunited with her career). Lohan finished off the year with a "tasteful" nude spread in Playboy, which might have marked the first time anybody truly buys that magazine for the articles.

Nice

• Kate Winslet: A longtime champion of positive body image, Winslet this year proved herself a hero of a different sort: the super kind. When a tropical storm set Richard Branson's home ablaze in August, the actress - one of the billionaire mogul's house guests - scooped up his 90-year-old mother and carried her to safety. In light of her selflessness, we're absolving Winslet of Jack's death in Titanic (even though everyone knows that hunk of wood was fit for two).

• Ryan Gosling: Canada's favourite son (sorry, Bieber) was everywhere this year - and for that, we are grateful. The Ontario native not only had starring roles in three of 2011's buzziest movies (Crazy, Stupid, Love, Drive and The Ides of March), he was captured on YouTube breaking up a common street fight. When the affable actor lost out on People magazine's "sexiest man alive" title, the Internet erupted with the most sincere outrage since Dr. Phil shaved his moustache.

• Kate and Pippa Middleton: The sisters Middleton took the world by storm in 2011, thanks to a royal wedding and one seriously chic bridesmaid dress. While Kate incited a return to ladylike dressing and sophistication, party girl Pippa sparked a Facebook page dedicated to the appreciation of her posterior (241,700 "likes" and counting). The pair makes a jolly good case for Canada's cozy relationship with England.

• Kristen Wiig: The Saturday Night Live star's screenwriting debut in Bridesmaids restored Hollywood's faith in female-driven comedy, with the picture becoming the highest-grossing Judd Apatow-produced movie of all time ($288.4 million worldwide). For her side-splitting work, which included a starring role in the raunchy film, GQ magazine dubbed Wiig "Bro of the Year." We just call her awesome.

• Scarlett Johansson: After finding herself the target of a hacker, who leaked nude photos the actress had taken of herself on her smartphone, Johansson responded with the media savvy of a seasoned pro: She copyrighted the images in order to legally pursue sites that published them. When asked about the scandal by Vanity Fair, the screen siren replied with breezy aplomb: "I know my best angles." And now, so does everybody else.

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